Todd Marinovich has heard the story of his life told so many times over the years. The quarterback prodigy. The overbearing father. The sudden rise to stardom. The drug-induced downfall. Each retelling framed in the fashion of a Greek tragedy.
His story has been chronicled in painful detail over decades, by everyone it seems but Marinovich. But writing it, reconciling with his past, would prove pretty agonizing in its own right. It wasn’t always easy to hear back old stories, filtered through his co-writer, Lizzy Wright.
“It was cathartic,” Marinovich, 47, told The Times. “But I had to really try not to be defiant.